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Issue Details:
First known date:
1934...
vol.
6
no.
12
3 December
1934
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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On cover sketch captioned: Lewis Gibbs Author of Earthquake in the Triangle, Parable for Lovers, Excursion to Lilliput, etc.
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Includes a section on travel books and biographies.
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Also includes the articles "Some Worst Sellers", "Children's Books", and "Making Fun of the English".
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1934 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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"The Greatest Achievement of the Century,
single work
review
— Review of The End of a Childhood and Other Stories 1934 selected work short story ; (p. 225)Note: Editor's note: If an Australian critic were to claim for her writers the production of one of the greatest stories of the century (and one such critic claimed that years ago for Henry Handel Richardson), the majority of her citizens would probably put it down to overheated enthusiasm or lack of wider knowledge and perspective. But Mr. Gerald Gould, the leading literary critic of the London Observer has a reputation in Europe and America, as well as in Great Britain. Australasian readers will, therefore, be interested in his considered opinion of this writer, who received her schooling in the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, but has now lived in England for many years. -
Two Books from Vance Palmer,
single work
review
— Review of Sea and Spinifex 1934 selected work short story ; The Swayne Family 1934 single work novel ; (p. 235-236) -
More Light Love Stories,
single work
review
— Review of Somebody Must 1934 single work novel ; (p. 236-237) -
A Reader's Notebook,
single work
review
— Review of One Hundred Years : The Romance of the Victorian People 1934 single work prose ; (p. 241) - Koalas and Kookaburras, extract autobiography (p. 244, 246)
- Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report], single work column (p. 251)
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